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vardump on April 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The byte order fallacy

Actually, a modern CPU loads a whole L1 cache line at once. Which is usually 64 bytes nowadays.

pagekalisedown on April 4, 2012 [–]

This can also result in 2 reads if the memory isn't aligned.

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